527. Hit & Run

There's nothing like and oddball road movie to grab my attention.
It was Friday night and Mrs W was too tired to complete the triple bill but I stayed manfully on for a movie I knew would not end until after 1am.
The everyfilmin2012 is nearing the last lap and I need to get myself in position to thrust for the line come December.
This was the last chance to see Dax Shepard and David Palmer's action comedy romance (yes, movies can be all three) and I had to take it.
This is a major project for Shepard. He directed Hit & Run, wrote the screenplay and takes the leading role.
His character, Charles Bronson (aka Yul Perkins) is on a witness protection programme after witnessing a bank robbery four years ago.
In that time he has set up home with Annie (Kirsten Bell) and is being babysat by a local police officer (Tom Arnold).
Shepard's script is particularly quirky. Arnold's character, for example, is a buffoon bordering on Keystone Cops.
Anyway, Charlie and Annie face being split up because she has been offered a job in Los Angeles, the very place from where he has been running.
If he goes back he could well run into the man who is trying to kill him (a bizarrely dreadlocked Bradley Cooper).
As said, I rather fell for the comedy of Hit & Run and there are a few surprises among the cast.
Bell, for example, is much more ballsy than in movies like When In Rome or Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Meanwhile,I had to look twice to recognise Cooper. He makes a pretty decent bad guy.
On the whole it was a passable romp for which it was worth staying up into the wee small hours.
Laughs: four
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: Yes - some rather old and flabby swingers!
Overall rating: 6.5/10